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weather tools/clouds
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cumulus | puffy with flat bottoms and round tops that signal fair weather |
| cirrus | wispy,feathery clouds made of ice crystals |
| stratus | clouds that form in flat layers and often cover much of the sky |
| nimbus | a rain cloud |
| fog | a stratus cloud that forms when air is cooled to its dew point near the ground |
| anometer | an instrument used to measure wind speed |
| wind vane | instrument used to measuerd wind direction |
| thermometer | an instrument used to measure temperature |
| sling psychrometer | a tool made of wet and dry thermometer that measures humidity relativity and requires a table to measure the two temperatures |
| barometer | an instrument that measures atmospheric air pressure |
| rain gauge | an instrument used to measure precipitation |
| weather map | a map that uses symbols to show weather data |
| weather satelites | type of satellite that is primarily used to moniter the waeather and climate of earth |
| weather radar | an instrument that sends pulses of electromagnetic energy into the atmosphere to find precipitation determine its motion and intensity and identify the precipitation type such as rain, snow or hail |
| isobar | line on a map connecting points having the same barometric reading at the given time |
| isotherm | a line on a weather map that joins places that have the same temperature |
| cumulonimbus | are thunderstorm clouds high winds can flatten the top of the cloud into an anvil-like shape.cumulonimbus clouds are associated with heavy rain,snow,hail,lightning and even tornadoes the anvil usually points to where the storm is moving |
| relative humidity | the amount of water vapor in the air at any given time is usually less than that required to saturate the air expressed as a percentage |